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This Startup Is Building the Internet of Underwater Things

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Today, the startup employs a staff of 50 people with offices located in Italy, U.K., How WSense is helping protect Italy's underwater archeological treasures Deploying acoustics, optical systems, and AI As you can imagine, “wireless network” and “underwater” are not made for each other. “It and Norway.

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Video Friday: GR-1

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Ayato Kanada, an assistant professor at Kyushu University, wants to build woodpecker-inspired Doc Ock tentacles. And when you’re a professor, you can just do that. Also, woodpeckers are weird.

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Video Friday: Medusai

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Michael Jordan offers his provocative thoughts on the blending of AI and economics and takes us on a tour of Trieste, a beautiful and grand city in northern Italy. Paper ] via [ IHMC ] Thanks, Robert!

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PROSUME blockchain-based platform for new peer-to-peer energy models; EV platform

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We aim to combine the network and energy layer to build a blockchain-based Internet of Energy, reducing the points of failure and the need for additional hardware from its adaptability in integrating with available and installed technologies —Alfredo Giardina, Co-founder of PROSUME Energy Foundation. The PROSUME token launch.

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F1 marks the30th anniversary of Senna’s death at Imola

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Four-time champion Sebastian Vettel, who retired from F1 in 2022, organized the memorial event with the Senna Foundation and will drive the Brazilian great’s 1993 McLaren car in a demonstration during the race weekend. Last year’s race at Imola was cancelled because of fatal flooding in northern Italy.

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FCA introduces New Fiat 500 EV; not confirmed for US

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In Milan, Italy, FCA presented the all-new, third-generation Fiat 500—which is a battery-electric vehicle. To optimize charging time, the New 500 is equipped with an 85 kW fast charger system; it takes only 5 minutes to build up a sufficient energy reserve to travel 50 kilometers—more than is needed for average daily use.

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Video Friday: Resilient Bugbots

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Skydio ] Voxel robots have been extensively simulated because they’re easy to simulated, but not extensively built because they’re hard to build. But here are some that actually work. FZI ] Satisfying.

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